Dear Listers, I've just come across a new (to me) on-line resource which may be helpful when trying to identify and locate a Welsh place-name. The resource held by the Archive Department of Bangor University in collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Digitisation Service. It is the "Archif Melville Richards" place-name database, whose search page is at: http://www.e-gymraeg.co.uk/enwaulleoedd/amr/cronfa_en.aspx The resource is accessed via a 'User Agreement' webpage, whose terms of use have to be accepted as a condition of using the database. A typical entry in the database contains the following features: head-name, location (township, parish, pre-1974 county or other territorial designation such as commote or island), grid reference (NGR), historical form, date, source, supplementary references. Archif Melville Richards allocates a separate field to each feature. But before performing a search, I strongly advise you to follow the links to 'History & Background' and 'User Guide', near the top right of each webpage. Kind regards, John -------------------- John Ball, Brecon, Mid-Wales, UK E-mail: [email protected] John's Homepage: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/ Images of Wales: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/walespic/ Welsh Family History Archive: http://www.jlb2005.plus.com/wales/ GENUKI Breconshire Maintainer: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/BRE/ Brecknock FH Group Webmaster: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wlsbfhs/ Joint Administrator - Powys (& BRE/MGY/RAD) RootsWeb mailing lists